[frame src=”http://www.thatmutt.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ace-the-black-Lab-mix-on-the-prairie.jpg” target=”_self” width=”689″ height=”387″ alt=”Black lab mix Ace on the prairie” align=”center” prettyphoto=”false”]The “older” I get, the more difficult it becomes to lose a dog.
Every loss is hard, however I have grown even more connected to every dog that comes along.
This states more about me as well as where I’m at in life than it states about the dogs.
Had my family’s dog Brittni went into my life when I was 24 vs. 14, our connection would’ve been extremely different. Not better, just different.
I desire her life could’ve overlapped with my present dog Ace, however it didn’t work out that way.
And now that Ace is extremely much middle-aged, he has had a number of dog buddies pass away.
This occurs frequently when you’re an older dog, I guess. Ace doesn’t seem unfortunate about it like I am.
Multiple buddies of mine who went out as well as embraced their very first dogs around the exact same time I did are now on their second round of dogs.
I’m so glad I’m not at that point rather yet.
When I believe about the future loss of my dog, one thing that assists is understanding these buddies have since gone on to embrace new dogs, as well as now they like as well as bond with these dogs just as much. (At least from my point of view.)
That’s not always what we want to hear when we lose a dog. It’s difficult to picture “moving on,” however it’s nice to picture discovering one more to love, with time.
When a great buddy lost her dog recently, I keep in mind she said, “Why is this so hard?”
It’s since we are so close to our dogs, one more buddy said. Often, much better than we are to the people in our lives. We bring our dogs into our beds. We hold them. We bring them when they’re sick.
Yes, this is true. as well as they see us at our most vulnerable, too, in so many scenarios in their short lives.
Every dog is special in his or her own way. We are just so fortunate we get to share our lives with them.
My buddy Erin composed on her blog, “Isn’t it fantastic that all of us get to have the very best dogs?”
Yes. It is.
What’s one of the things you like most about your present dog?
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